"People were just drawn to him," Officer Walter Hattrich said. "And once you met him, you felt like you knew him forever."

People, like Christina Lawrence, who had only know Lewis for a short while. Still, since her time spent coaching children's soccer with him, she and Lewis created many lasting memories.

"To just see that smiling face running across the gym and having fun with the kids," she said. "It's something that was very memorable to me."

Lawrence was touched by the number of people who came out Saturday.

"It's really nice to see a group of community members just come out and show how important it is to our community to have an individual like that," she said. "That had such good character, and it's going to spread that to Tybee."

That good character was shown through countless selfless acts across his short time on Tybee.

"I've had so many people come up to me and tell me something about him that had an impact on their lives," Mayor Jason Buelterman said.

"That he helped them take their trash down from the house to the street because they couldn't manage it, how nice he was, how humble he was," Hattrich said. "And they're reminding us of that all the time."